Stephen P Mumme
Biographic Data
| ID | 73366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen P Mumme |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen P |
| FAMILY NAME | Mumme |
| SIGNATURE | MUMME S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4373-8430 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Environmental capacities in Latin America: A comparison of Brazil, Chile, and Mexico
Ecological modernization (EM) is a contested idea. Most accounts agree EM entails significant state commitment to environmental protection that accommodates environmental values to neoliberal economic growth, emphasizing the use of market mechanisms rather than command-and-control policies. Most analysts believe that less industrialized countries (LICs) have fewer capacities and incentives to adopt and pursue EM policies. We examine this assumpti…
Border Water: The Politics of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Management, 1945–2015
Water Management on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Achieving Water Sustainability and Resilience through Cross-Border Cooperation
Shortly after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2021, Commissioner Maria Elena Giner called for input into issues of importance to the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission (USIBWC). Responding to her call, a group of border scholars committed to producing a white paper entitled “Water Management on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Achieving Water Sustainability and Resilience through Cross-Border Cooperation”. This document …
Hydrodiplomacy and adaptive governance at the U.S.-Mexico border: 75 Years of Tradition and Innovation in Transboundary Water Management
Professional Expertise in the Management of International Freshwater Commissions: The Case of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico
The 1944 Water Treaty and the Incorporation of Environmental Values in U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Governance
On quasi-constitutional treaties
Through analysis of North American water treaties, this article specifies criteria for determining the quasi-constitutionality of freshwater treaties in order to determine if some of them have quasi-constitutional standing. These criteria, temporal, substantive, and contextual, are applied to treaties found in the Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database at Oregon State University (TFDD). Of 74 agreements (with 50 years standard duration), only …
Cooperación local binacional: La cuenca internacional del Río Tijuana
Se examina la experiencia de iniciativas de colaboración ambiental a nivel local binacional en la Cuenca del Río Tijuana, y la participación gubernamental de México y Estados Unidos en esos ámbitos. El análisis comprende cuatro puntos principales: las características y problemáticas ambientales de la cuenca; las iniciativas locales binacionales en las últimas décadas; la participación gubernamental en dicha experiencia, en el contexto de las dife…
Scarcity and Power in US–Mexico Transboundary Water Governance: Has the Architecture Changed since Nafta
This paper examines the politics of water allocation on the US–Mexico border since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) began in 1994. While NAFTA reforms have modestly changed the water allocation regime, they have not altered the longstanding asymmetry of power relationships governing the allocation of water resources between the two countries. Two rivers are considered. On the Rio Grande, NAFTA and its associated reforms had the eff…
The Evolution of Natural Resource Conservation Capacity on the U . S .– M exico Border: Bilateral and Trilateral Environmental Agreements since L a P az
This article traces the development of natural resources conservation policy capacity along the U . S .– M exico border with emphasis on the post‐ L a P az Agreement period. The study focuses on the content of bilateral and multilateral agreements affecting natural resources management along the U . S .– M exico border, what Janicke (2002) identifies as the structural/contextual dimension of environmental capacity consisting of institutional cont…
Sustainable Development in the Bering Strait: Indigenous Values and the Challenge of Collaborative Governance
Climate change heightens the vulnerability of Alaska’s indigenous communities to shipping in the Bering Strait. Federal policy requiring “meaningful consultation and collaboration” with Alaska’s native communities does not adequately ensure utilization of indigenous knowledge in policy practices, consideration of native governance, or the facilitation of relationships strengthening collaborative processes. The discrepancy between present practice…
Trade and Environmental Protection along the United States–Mexico Border
This article examines environmental protection along the US–Mexico border since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) took effect in January 1994. It first reviews the general and border-specific neoliberal arguments positing a favourable relationship between trade agreements and environmental protection. It then reviews the trajectory of environmental policy along the border, focusing on the principal institutions and programmes develo…
Multilevel governance of water on the U.S.-Mexico border
This article examines the state of binational multi-level water governance along the U.S.-Mexico border. Drawing on the well known multi-level governance (MLG) typology advanced by Hooghe and Marks (2003), the article pro files the Type I and Type II binational water institutions and programs now in place along the U.S.-Mexico border and examines their role in solving recent binational water disputes. The article shows that Type II MLG institutio…
Leadership, politics, and administrative reform at the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico
This paper draws on theories of leadership to explain administrative problems at the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico that led the U.S. President, in an unprecedented action, to remove the U.S. Section's Commissioner in 2005. The analysis proceeds from a detailed review of the history and organizational features of the U.S. Section. While popular accounts of the U.S. Section's lead…
Trade Integration, Neoliberal Reform, and Environmental Protection in Mexico: Lessons for the Americas
Among Latin American countries Mexico is a model of neoliberalism's environmental promise and pitfalls. Since entering the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it has undertaken extensive environmental reforms predicated on export-intensive industrialization and the growth of urban society. An examination of these reforms, their background and statutory changes, policy measures, and international commitments made in this area since NAFTA …
Environmental politics and policy in U.S.-Mexican border studies: Developments, achievements, and trends
The study of environmental politics and policy on the U.S.-Mexican border is barely more than 30 years old. This interdisciplinary field has grown substantially since the 1970s, however, and now generates a substantial literature addressing a range of environmental media, politics, and policy problems within and across the international boundary. While most of this effort is descriptive and normative, focused on understanding institutional arrang…
Democratization, decentralization, and local environmental policy capacity: Hungary and Mexico
Democracy is thought to promote administrative and political decentralization in countries committed to its practice. This is particularly true in the area of environmental policy which is often associated with public participation, government accountability and responsiveness, environmental stewardship, and the accrual of local policy capacity for environmental protection. Most of the operating assumptions on the relationship between democratic …
Rules and politics in international integration: Environmental regulation in Nafta and the EU
Deepening global and regional integration has brought in its wake various public policies and public policy proposals. The comparative study of those public policies can shed light on variations amongst them as well as alert us to any common dynamics. Here we offer a systematic comparison of the environmental policies associated with North American and European integration by examining their procedural and substantive rules within their respectiv…
Structuration Theory and the Analysis of International Territorial Disputes: Lessons from an Application to the El Chamizal Controversy
Structuration Theory and the Analysis of International Territorial Disputes: Lessons From an Application to the El Chamizal Controversy
This study argues that Structuration Theory (ST), developed by sociologist Anthony Giddens, has promise for improving our understanding of the dynamics of international territorial disputes. To tease out its analytical value, ST's basic assumptions are compared to those of two state-centric approaches within the international relations literature, dependency theory, and strategic coalition theory, and then applied to the case of a well-known terr…
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation and Environmental Management in the Americas
To what extent has the North American Free Trade Agreement contributed to strengthening and deepening international environmental management in the Americas? Should the system be broadened to incorporate other nations? While a complete answer to these queries is currently beyond reach, there should be little doubt that NAFTA has influenced and continues to influence the direction of environmental management in North America and the hemisphere at …
Environmental Management on the Mexico-United States Border: Nafta and the Emerging Bilateral Regime
Introduction Public concern with environmental management in areas is of fairly recent vintage. What might be called modern environmental activism along the Mexico-U.S. traces its roots only to the mid-1970s with social mobilization on sanitation issues. For example, as late as 1979 in a seminal report on transboundary environmental problems, Howard Applegate--professor of civil engineering at the University of Texas, El Paso, and a pioneer schol…
Other books in review
Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California.John Walton
System Maintenance and Environmental Reform in Mexico: Salinas's Preemptive Strategy
Evidence of Mexico's ecological crisis is everywhere. Fifty years of economic miracles and debacles have left its environment in a shambles. Whether one considers the net reduction of Mexican forests by 66 percent overall, with an annual rate of loss in excess of a million acres, attendant problems of soil erosion and desertification, the reduction of the Lacandon jungle by 70 percent in the past 40 years, the loss of thousands of species of faun…
Democratization, decentralization, and local environmental policy capacity: Hungary and Mexico
Democracy is thought to promote administrative and political decentralization in countries committed to its practice. This is particularly true in the area of environmental policy which is often associated with public participation, government accountability and responsiveness, environmental stewardship, and the accrual of local policy capacity for environmental protection. Most of the operating assumptions on the relationship between democratic …
System Maintenance and Environmental Reform in Mexico: Salinas's Preemptive Strategy
Evidence of Mexico's ecological crisis is everywhere. Fifty years of economic miracles and debacles have left its environment in a shambles. Whether one considers the net reduction of Mexican forests by 66 percent overall, with an annual rate of loss in excess of a million acres, attendant problems of soil erosion and desertification, the reduction of the Lacandon jungle by 70 percent in the past 40 years, the loss of thousands of species of faun…
Political Development and Environmental Policy in Mexico
The fight against ecological degradation "has become a generalized policy demand of the whole society," declared Marcelo Javelly Girard, Mexico's Secretary of Urban Development and Ecology. Addressing the Mexican Cabinet and hundreds of dignitaries attending Mexico's Primera Reunión Nacional de Ecología in June of 1984, Javelly Girard thus placed environmental concerns on President Miguel de la Madrid's official policy agenda. Appropriately conve…
Trade Integration, Neoliberal Reform, and Environmental Protection in Mexico: Lessons for the Americas
Among Latin American countries Mexico is a model of neoliberalism's environmental promise and pitfalls. Since entering the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), it has undertaken extensive environmental reforms predicated on export-intensive industrialization and the growth of urban society. An examination of these reforms, their background and statutory changes, policy measures, and international commitments made in this area since NAFTA …
Environmental politics and policy in U.S.-Mexican border studies: Developments, achievements, and trends
The study of environmental politics and policy on the U.S.-Mexican border is barely more than 30 years old. This interdisciplinary field has grown substantially since the 1970s, however, and now generates a substantial literature addressing a range of environmental media, politics, and policy problems within and across the international boundary. While most of this effort is descriptive and normative, focused on understanding institutional arrang…
Rules and politics in international integration: Environmental regulation in Nafta and the EU
Deepening global and regional integration has brought in its wake various public policies and public policy proposals. The comparative study of those public policies can shed light on variations amongst them as well as alert us to any common dynamics. Here we offer a systematic comparison of the environmental policies associated with North American and European integration by examining their procedural and substantive rules within their respectiv…
Regional Power in National Diplomacy: The Case of the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission
An interesting anomaly in the usual pattern of federal foreign policy management is found in the case of the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico. The U.S. Section functions as a quasi-independent agency formally subject to the U.S. Department of State for policy oversight. Since its formation in 1945, however, the U.S. Section has acquired substantial institutional autonomy from the State Depa…
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation and Environmental Management in the Americas
To what extent has the North American Free Trade Agreement contributed to strengthening and deepening international environmental management in the Americas? Should the system be broadened to incorporate other nations? While a complete answer to these queries is currently beyond reach, there should be little doubt that NAFTA has influenced and continues to influence the direction of environmental management in North America and the hemisphere at …
Engineering diplomacy: The evolving role of the international boundary and water commission in U.S.‐Mexico water management
However one chooses to consider the work of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico (IBWC)--whether from a cultural, geographic or political standpoint--one is drawn to the conclusion it is as remarkable a regional water management agency as can be found anywhere. Supervising the boundary and water of the entire 1967 mile border, the Commission oversees two major river basins, numerous lesser ones, and over 700 m…
Hydrodiplomacy and adaptive governance at the U.S.-Mexico border: 75 Years of Tradition and Innovation in Transboundary Water Management
On quasi-constitutional treaties
Through analysis of North American water treaties, this article specifies criteria for determining the quasi-constitutionality of freshwater treaties in order to determine if some of them have quasi-constitutional standing. These criteria, temporal, substantive, and contextual, are applied to treaties found in the Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database at Oregon State University (TFDD). Of 74 agreements (with 50 years standard duration), only …
The Evolution of Natural Resource Conservation Capacity on the U . S .– M exico Border: Bilateral and Trilateral Environmental Agreements since L a P az
This article traces the development of natural resources conservation policy capacity along the U . S .– M exico border with emphasis on the post‐ L a P az Agreement period. The study focuses on the content of bilateral and multilateral agreements affecting natural resources management along the U . S .– M exico border, what Janicke (2002) identifies as the structural/contextual dimension of environmental capacity consisting of institutional cont…
Structuration Theory and the Analysis of International Territorial Disputes: Lessons From an Application to the El Chamizal Controversy
This study argues that Structuration Theory (ST), developed by sociologist Anthony Giddens, has promise for improving our understanding of the dynamics of international territorial disputes. To tease out its analytical value, ST's basic assumptions are compared to those of two state-centric approaches within the international relations literature, dependency theory, and strategic coalition theory, and then applied to the case of a well-known terr…
Dependency and Interdependence in Hazardous Waste Management Along the U.S.–Mexico Border
Community Values In Southwest Water Management
This paper challenges the applicability of the policy framework, labeled the new resource economics, to Western water management, particularly as applied to two examples examined in the paper: the Papago Tribe in South Central Arizona, and Hispanic villages along the Upper Rio Grande River. Contrary to the assumptions of new resource cconomics, water is regarded by these communities not just as an economic commodity but as a special resource clos…
Water Management on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Achieving Water Sustainability and Resilience through Cross-Border Cooperation
Shortly after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2021, Commissioner Maria Elena Giner called for input into issues of importance to the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission (USIBWC). Responding to her call, a group of border scholars committed to producing a white paper entitled “Water Management on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Achieving Water Sustainability and Resilience through Cross-Border Cooperation”. This document …
The 1944 Water Treaty and the Incorporation of Environmental Values in U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Governance
Cooperación local binacional: La cuenca internacional del Río Tijuana
Se examina la experiencia de iniciativas de colaboración ambiental a nivel local binacional en la Cuenca del Río Tijuana, y la participación gubernamental de México y Estados Unidos en esos ámbitos. El análisis comprende cuatro puntos principales: las características y problemáticas ambientales de la cuenca; las iniciativas locales binacionales en las últimas décadas; la participación gubernamental en dicha experiencia, en el contexto de las dife…
Scarcity and Power in US–Mexico Transboundary Water Governance: Has the Architecture Changed since Nafta
This paper examines the politics of water allocation on the US–Mexico border since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) began in 1994. While NAFTA reforms have modestly changed the water allocation regime, they have not altered the longstanding asymmetry of power relationships governing the allocation of water resources between the two countries. Two rivers are considered. On the Rio Grande, NAFTA and its associated reforms had the eff…
Sustainable Development in the Bering Strait: Indigenous Values and the Challenge of Collaborative Governance
Climate change heightens the vulnerability of Alaska’s indigenous communities to shipping in the Bering Strait. Federal policy requiring “meaningful consultation and collaboration” with Alaska’s native communities does not adequately ensure utilization of indigenous knowledge in policy practices, consideration of native governance, or the facilitation of relationships strengthening collaborative processes. The discrepancy between present practice…
Multilevel governance of water on the U.S.-Mexico border
This article examines the state of binational multi-level water governance along the U.S.-Mexico border. Drawing on the well known multi-level governance (MLG) typology advanced by Hooghe and Marks (2003), the article pro files the Type I and Type II binational water institutions and programs now in place along the U.S.-Mexico border and examines their role in solving recent binational water disputes. The article shows that Type II MLG institutio…
Leadership, politics, and administrative reform at the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico
This paper draws on theories of leadership to explain administrative problems at the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico that led the U.S. President, in an unprecedented action, to remove the U.S. Section's Commissioner in 2005. The analysis proceeds from a detailed review of the history and organizational features of the U.S. Section. While popular accounts of the U.S. Section's lead…
National perspectives on managing transboundary environmental Hazards: The U.S.‐Mexico Border Region
The management of environmental hazards in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands presents a unique challenge. Two very dissimilar economic, social, and political communities are set along side one another, forming a dynamic region defined by cultural pluralism, migration and rapid growth. At the same time, marked differences in economic resources, administrative and political resources, and social values complicate the task of managing the border environm…
State Influence in Foreign Policymaking: Water Related Environmental Disputes along the United States-Mexico Border
rT ^RADITIONALLY, scholars have conceptualized international relations as conducted by political units treated almost as personalities. The structure is taken as given; foreign policy begins where policy ends (Kissinger 1966: 503). This tendency has not gone without its critics, however. In a pathbreaking study of influences Rosenau (1967: 4) observed, domestic factors may be of considerable significance even if they are not primary sources of fo…
U.S.-Mexican Groundwater Problems: Bilateral Prospects and Implications
Obscured amid the headline issues of illegal aliens, drug smuggling, and the Mexican petroleum bonanza, yet another controversy is nascent in U.S.-Mexican relations the dispute over common groundwaters underlying the frontier zone. This dispute, with roots in the recent salinity accords of 1973, emerges as the latest phase in the long history of water resource controversies exacerbating problems between the two nations. Until recently, the histor…
The Poverty of Revolution: The State and the Urban Poor in Mexico
Marxism in Latin America
U.S.-Mexican Groundwater Problems: Bilateral Prospects and Implications
Obscured amid the headline issues of illegal aliens, drug smuggling, and the Mexican petroleum bonanza, yet another controversy is nascent in U.S.-Mexican relations the dispute over common groundwaters underlying the frontier zone. This dispute, with roots in the recent salinity accords of 1973, emerges as the latest phase in the long history of water resource controversies exacerbating problems between the two nations. Until recently, the histor…
The Policy Analysis of Water Shortages
Allen V. Kneese and F. Lee Brown, The Southwest Under Stress.Richard A. Berk, et al., Water Shortage
Regional Power in National Diplomacy: The Case of the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission
An interesting anomaly in the usual pattern of federal foreign policy management is found in the case of the U.S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico. The U.S. Section functions as a quasi-independent agency formally subject to the U.S. Department of State for policy oversight. Since its formation in 1945, however, the U.S. Section has acquired substantial institutional autonomy from the State Depa…
Dependency and Interdependence in Hazardous Waste Management Along the U.S.–Mexico Border
Community Values In Southwest Water Management
This paper challenges the applicability of the policy framework, labeled the new resource economics, to Western water management, particularly as applied to two examples examined in the paper: the Papago Tribe in South Central Arizona, and Hispanic villages along the Upper Rio Grande River. Contrary to the assumptions of new resource cconomics, water is regarded by these communities not just as an economic commodity but as a special resource clos…
State Influence in Foreign Policymaking: Water Related Environmental Disputes along the United States-Mexico Border
rT ^RADITIONALLY, scholars have conceptualized international relations as conducted by political units treated almost as personalities. The structure is taken as given; foreign policy begins where policy ends (Kissinger 1966: 503). This tendency has not gone without its critics, however. In a pathbreaking study of influences Rosenau (1967: 4) observed, domestic factors may be of considerable significance even if they are not primary sources of fo…
Engineering diplomacy: The evolving role of the international boundary and water commission in U.S.‐Mexico water management
However one chooses to consider the work of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico (IBWC)--whether from a cultural, geographic or political standpoint--one is drawn to the conclusion it is as remarkable a regional water management agency as can be found anywhere. Supervising the boundary and water of the entire 1967 mile border, the Commission oversees two major river basins, numerous lesser ones, and over 700 m…
State and local influence in transboundary environmental policy making along the U.S.‐Mexico Border: The case of air quality management
(1987). State and local influence in transboundary environmental policy making along the U.S.‐Mexico Border: The case of air quality management. Journal of Borderlands Studies: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1-16
National perspectives on managing transboundary environmental Hazards: The U.S.‐Mexico Border Region
The management of environmental hazards in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands presents a unique challenge. Two very dissimilar economic, social, and political communities are set along side one another, forming a dynamic region defined by cultural pluralism, migration and rapid growth. At the same time, marked differences in economic resources, administrative and political resources, and social values complicate the task of managing the border environm…
Political Development and Environmental Policy in Mexico
The fight against ecological degradation "has become a generalized policy demand of the whole society," declared Marcelo Javelly Girard, Mexico's Secretary of Urban Development and Ecology. Addressing the Mexican Cabinet and hundreds of dignitaries attending Mexico's Primera Reunión Nacional de Ecología in June of 1984, Javelly Girard thus placed environmental concerns on President Miguel de la Madrid's official policy agenda. Appropriately conve…
Oil and Mexican Foreign Policy. George W. Grayson
Policy and Prescription in U.S.-Mexico Relations
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Nuclear Power, Technological Autonomy, and the State in Mexico
On 10 October 1988, President Miguel de la Madrid authorized loading of the first of two reactor units at the Laguna Verde nuclear power plant, on the Mexican gulf coast above the port of Veracruz. De la Madrid's decision to move ahead with Laguna Verde, Mexico's first foray into commercial nuclear energy production, came as no surprise. What was extraordinary was that it proved to be one of the most controversial policy actions of his sexenio. C…
System Maintenance and Environmental Reform in Mexico: Salinas's Preemptive Strategy
Evidence of Mexico's ecological crisis is everywhere. Fifty years of economic miracles and debacles have left its environment in a shambles. Whether one considers the net reduction of Mexican forests by 66 percent overall, with an annual rate of loss in excess of a million acres, attendant problems of soil erosion and desertification, the reduction of the Lacandon jungle by 70 percent in the past 40 years, the loss of thousands of species of faun…
Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California.John Walton
Other books in review
Environmental Management on the Mexico-United States Border: Nafta and the Emerging Bilateral Regime
Introduction Public concern with environmental management in areas is of fairly recent vintage. What might be called modern environmental activism along the Mexico-U.S. traces its roots only to the mid-1970s with social mobilization on sanitation issues. For example, as late as 1979 in a seminal report on transboundary environmental problems, Howard Applegate--professor of civil engineering at the University of Texas, El Paso, and a pioneer schol…
Structuration Theory and the Analysis of International Territorial Disputes: Lessons from an Application to the El Chamizal Controversy
Structuration Theory and the Analysis of International Territorial Disputes: Lessons From an Application to the El Chamizal Controversy
This study argues that Structuration Theory (ST), developed by sociologist Anthony Giddens, has promise for improving our understanding of the dynamics of international territorial disputes. To tease out its analytical value, ST's basic assumptions are compared to those of two state-centric approaches within the international relations literature, dependency theory, and strategic coalition theory, and then applied to the case of a well-known terr…
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation and Environmental Management in the Americas
To what extent has the North American Free Trade Agreement contributed to strengthening and deepening international environmental management in the Americas? Should the system be broadened to incorporate other nations? While a complete answer to these queries is currently beyond reach, there should be little doubt that NAFTA has influenced and continues to influence the direction of environmental management in North America and the hemisphere at …
Rules and politics in international integration: Environmental regulation in Nafta and the EU
Deepening global and regional integration has brought in its wake various public policies and public policy proposals. The comparative study of those public policies can shed light on variations amongst them as well as alert us to any common dynamics. Here we offer a systematic comparison of the environmental policies associated with North American and European integration by examining their procedural and substantive rules within their respectiv…
Environmental politics and policy in U.S.-Mexican border studies: Developments, achievements, and trends
The study of environmental politics and policy on the U.S.-Mexican border is barely more than 30 years old. This interdisciplinary field has grown substantially since the 1970s, however, and now generates a substantial literature addressing a range of environmental media, politics, and policy problems within and across the international boundary. While most of this effort is descriptive and normative, focused on understanding institutional arrang…
Democratization, decentralization, and local environmental policy capacity: Hungary and Mexico
Democracy is thought to promote administrative and political decentralization in countries committed to its practice. This is particularly true in the area of environmental policy which is often associated with public participation, government accountability and responsiveness, environmental stewardship, and the accrual of local policy capacity for environmental protection. Most of the operating assumptions on the relationship between democratic …
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